What Was the U.S. GDP Then?

What Was?
US Nominal GDP
US Real GDP
US GDP Deflator
US Population
US Nominal GDP Per Capita
US Real GDP Per Capita

Initial Year *:

Ending Year *:

* Select initial and ending years from 1790 to the present.

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the market value of all final goods and services produced within a country during a given time period. There are two measures of GDP:

Nominal GDP is the value of production at current market prices, here measured in millions of US Dollars.

Real GDP is the value of production using a given base year prices, here presented at constant (2009) market prices measured in millions of US Dollars.

The GDP Deflator is the price index used to measure changes in the overall level of prices for the goods and services that make up GDP. It is simply 100 times the ratio of nominal to real GDP.

GDP per capita is calculated by dividing either nominal or real GDP for a given year by the population in that year. These numbers can be thought of as the average share of output per person.

The series presented here are a combination of revised series from 1929 to 2013 that the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis published in July of 2013 (and updated in July of 2014) and data from 1790 to 1929 constructed by Louis Johnston and Samuel H.Williamson. As many researchers have used our previous series and may have cited this source in their work, we provide a link to that series here.